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I just store my posts over at Substack here. Though it’s unlikely that I write anything that is offensive enough for me to lose access to them, it’s still nice to have a copy.
My experience of learning languages as an autodidact.
My experience of learning languages as an autodidact. When I was a kid, I thought it was obvious that anyone who says he knows a language would be comfortable speaking or listening...
Read more...A fictional debate & Roman ideas about race
A fictional debate & Roman ideas about race I had previously started to write a piece on the ideas about race, ethnicity and nationalism in the ancient world but stopped as I...
Read more...Can women be poets ?
Can women be poets ? Kāvyādarśa (Mirror of Poetry) by Daṇḍin (~700CE, Tamil Nadu) was perhaps the most influential text on literary theory and poetry in the pre-modern world . In...
Read more...Maybe three. Or four. Actually five.
Maybe three. Or four. Actually five. The following post is about grammatical gender in Greek and Latin and how the ancients thought of it. I have neither the knowledge nor the...
Read more...The complete tale
The complete tale Proto-Indo-European (PIE), or sometimes just Indo-European (IE), is the reconstructed ancestor language of many present-day languages ranging from (as the name...
Read more...An introduction and a poem
An introduction and a poem It has been known for some time that the many people-groups speaking various Indo-European languages have striking similarities and correspondences not...
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